On a date by herself, the Black Sage buys a newspaper to read at dinner. It has an article about two city council candidates, including Scott Bolden. Leaving the restaurant, with the article in view, she runs into Bolden and writes: I ignore him. He doesn’t ignore me.

Ibérico pig,
Spain’s fabled delicacy,
lives up to the hype.No, it’s not a travel promotion. It’s a restaurant review – in haiku – of the Jaleo. There are several more (the one for Brickskeller is particularly apt) by A Thousand Burning Sunswho visited several restaurants and pubs during a recent trip to DC.

Text mess-ages: The breakup arrives via text message. Text message becomes basis for blog post. Blog post gets excerpted in The Express and into the hands of Metro riders everywhere … now half the commuters relying on the Metro in DC now realize that I was dumped and in such a pathetic way, writes Carrie Broadshoulders.

Once he gets enough salt water in his veins, Lonnie Bruner intends to set sail for France. No date set.

Suicide Blond says she lives next to a brothel, and writes: … they are good neighbors – they send me really fancy gift baskets on holidays, clean up in front of their place, and they are generally pleasant. From Glamour is a Rocky Road. New blog.

My New Job at NPR. Andy Carvin writes: In this role, I’ll essentially act as NPR’s Web 2.0 strategist, helping them develop new initiatives that encourage greater public involvement in NPR’s online activities. These activities could take a variety of forms: online social networks, wikis, blogs, mobcasting, citizen journalism, original content sharing.

City Sparklewins the blind date/bachelor contest on Hot 99.5 and gets Justin Timberlake tickets. I am so excited, I can’t function, she writes.

The otherwise low-maintenance woman at Sugar, Spice and Sometimes Nice writes: What is it about Starbuck’s that turns a perfectly normal girl into high-maintenance?

Site note: Will return Monday. Have a good weekend. Important note to Blogger users who are in live feed: There are problems with the new Blogger beta and how it deals with feed urls. If you move to the beta, your post may appear with a time stamp that’s actually several hours ahead of when you published. We have received notes from several bloggers who are trying out the beta and have noticed this. The fix seems to be changing from an atom to rss feed url, which is something we do at our end. But if you can avoid moving to the Blogger beta for now, that might be best.

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